Innovation

New series: “Innovation Rounds” will bring people together to learn, support, encourage, and discuss innovative ideas and solutions for health and the health care system and to facilitate relationships between health researchers, commercial partners, students, health centre foundations, and others.

Crowdfunding is defined as raising small amounts of money from many individuals to help achieve a goal. Many successful general-purpose crowdfunding services exist, yet these websites do not list “science” or “research” as campaign categories. As a result, researchers in Canada have not had a place to call home in the crowdfunding world. By building Labfundr.ca, we have created one. Our goal is to strengthen support for researchers in Canada by helping them engage communities. Connecting researchers with people who are passionate about their work can boost awareness and increase the broader impact of research findings. Find out how crowdfunding works, ingredients of a successful campaign, and whether crowdfunding is right for you.

Immunovaccine Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to making immunotherapy more effective, more broadly applicable, and more widely available to people facing cancer and infectious diseases. The company develops cancer immunotherapies and infectious disease vaccines based on the DepoVax™ platform. This talk explores the development of the platform from the preclinical stage through to current clinical development, highlighting the unique challenges of developing new therapies in Atlantic Canada.